photo by P i c t u r e Y o u t h
If you live too far away to join our homeschool co-op, your student can still take my blogging class with the free Homeschool Blogging Correspondence Course.
It’s easy! All you have to do is subscribe to my blog. Choose from the following options:
- Fetch the RSS feed.
Wondering what an RSS feed is? See the video explanation below.
- Or get updates by email.
You’ll get an email whenever I publish a blog post. No spam, I promise!
- Then post your blog’s name and URL in the Comments section below, so I can add you to my blogroll. [Student bloggers only, please!]
All of our blogging lessons and homework assignments will be posted here, along with extra tips that I don’t have time to discuss in the weekly face-to-face class. And you can ask questions whenever you want, either by commenting on a post or by using the contact form on my About TeacherMom page.
To get started now, read To My New Blogging Students and Their Parents and Week 1: A Blogger’s First Steps.
What’s an RSS Feed?
[If the embedded version doesn't work, see the video on YouTube: RSS in Plain English.]
Or here’s a good summary, if you’d rather read than watch a video:
September 6th, 2010 at 4:27 pm
I hope we’re not too late! My daughter {pen name to come} would like to join this course. I was actually spending time putting lesson plans together for her when I came upon this at “Weird, Unsocialized Homeschoolers”.
Thanks!
September 6th, 2010 at 4:32 pm
Never too late! Most of our technical details will apply to WordPress, not Blogger, but the principles are the same for any blog.
September 7th, 2010 at 1:18 am
Please add my son, Isaiah, too.
blog name – “Mental Weight”
http://www.mentalweight.blogspot.com
Thanks for this vid. My plan was to get him set up on Google Reader this week…so this is perfect!
January 30th, 2011 at 11:30 pm
I’m hoping that we can participate in your correspondence course also. We live in Australia so yeah, we are a bit far away
The above blog has been created by my son.
thanks lots,
Michelle
February 4th, 2011 at 12:31 pm
I’ve added Cybertronarchives to the link list. To participate in the “correspondence course” you just need to read through any of the Blogging Lesson articles that look interesting to you and subscribe to my RSS feed or email updates.
You can send in questions at any time, using the contact form on my About page. Since my blogging class was canceled for this semester, I will not be posting as often as in the past, but I’m glad to answer questions from students at any time!
February 14th, 2011 at 7:58 pm
I’m so happy to have found this. I started my 12yo on a blogging assignment, but I truthfully have no expertise in this area and have been winging it. He’s eager to have a forum to express himself and I think it’s a great way for him to connect with other home schoolers, while working on his writing skills.Thanks for doing this. He’ll be signing on this week.
August 25th, 2011 at 9:54 pm
Please add ” Bryce”! Thanks
August 27th, 2011 at 1:47 pm
I’d love to add him! But please tell me, where is his blog? I need the URL (that is, the internet address).
January 24th, 2012 at 10:28 pm
Are you still doing this at all or are there just the archives to go through. They look great and comprehensive from the little I have peeked. There seems to be a lot to go through and it is a tad daunting to me. At the beginning of the First Steps page, you mention a book… How necessary is the book? Should I wait to start until we have it or can we just wing it without?
Thanks! ~Amy
January 25th, 2012 at 9:15 am
Hi, Amy!
I keep intending to get back to this blog, adding new information and revising the old, but I’ve been too busy. So for now, and perhaps until I get another co-op class together someday, there are just the archives and links. As you said, there is plenty of information here, so take your time working through it.
The book (DownWRITE Funny by Randy Larson) was just for my in-person class, to add some writing/editing exercises each week. There’s no reason you would need to get it for working on your own.
Best Wishes!